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Perhaps the greatest surprise has been the turnaround in the once gray and stilted Izvestia. The official government newspaper is selling 8 million copies a day, up from 6.7 million two years ago, thanks to its transformation under Editor Ivan Laptev into a lively collage of reporting and commentary. "For Soviet readers, Izvestia is the most interesting newspaper around," says Ogonyok's Biryukov. In early August the paper published an interview with a military officer whose duty it is to push the launch button at a nuclear missile center. Never before had a Soviet publication reported in such detail...
...summer of 1937, the Soviet icebreaker Sedov was doing exploration work in the Kara Sea and making a hydrological survey of the Laptev Sea, two links of the Northeast Passage (see map). In October, most of her work done, she was sent to the rescue of two other icebreakers, the Sadko and Malygin, icebound in the floes of the Laptev. Winter set in early that year, and on Oct. 23 the Sedov was fast in the ice too. Professor Rudolph Lazarevich Samoilovich. leader of the expedition, ordered the 217 men and women aboard the three ships to settle down...
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